Group avatars fail to load for GitLab groups

[gtsiolis]

Problem to solve

Following up from #5120 (comment), group avatars fail to load for GitLab groups. 🦊

Missing avatars on groups (a)	Missing avatars on personal accounts (b)

[svenefftinge]

/schedule

[roboquat]

@svenefftinge: Issue scheduled in the meta team (WIP: 0)

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/schedule

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[JanKoehnlein]

Let's do this after the launch

[laushinka]

Is this still happening? I tried with my personal account and I can see my avatar. I'm not sure how to add my group, though. I created one on GitLab but couldn't find it in the New Project dropdown.

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[gtsiolis]

@laushinka Yes, this is still happening but only affects group avatars as described in the issue! You can add more groups at GitLab.com first in order to see these here, see relevant docs.

[laushinka]

@laushinka Yes, this is still happening but only affects group avatars as described in the issue! You can add more groups at GitLab.com first in order to see these here, see relevant docs.

@gtsiolis Turns out I needed to create a project first on GitLab under the group, in order for it to show up in the New Project page. It didn't show up with only a group for me.

[gtsiolis]

Turns out I needed to create a project first on GitLab under the group, in order for it to show up in the New Project page. It didn't show up with only a group for me.

Ah, yes! That's expected as it does not make much sense to list it there when there are no projects inside, right? What do you think?

[jldec]

/schedule

[roboquat]

@jldec: Issue scheduled in the meta team (WIP: 0)

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/schedule

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[jldec]

/assign @laushinka

[laushinka]

Sorry was assigned this since before the holiday. Going to pick something else for now.

/unassign

[gtsiolis]

@laushinka shall we also change the issue status on the groundwork board for visibility?

@jldec shall we 🅰️ keep as scheduled until someone picks this up again or 🅱️ remove it altogether from groundwork for now?

[jankeromnes]

Will take a look today 😁

[jankeromnes]

For me, it looks like all the groups that do have avatars (e.g. jankeromnes, gitpod) work as intended, while the groups that don't actually have an avatar (e.g. gitpod-io, gitpod-team) also have no avatar in Gitpod.

Do we have a GitLab group that actually has an avatar, but that doesn't show up in Gitpod? 🤔

EDIT: If you add an avatar to a group, the avatar is still not shown in the list. Will attempt a fix.

[gtsiolis]

Re-posting from the discussion with @jankeromnes:

For those that the avatar is visible, it’s because gitpod is a user, not a group. See relevant discussion (internal).

GitLab auto-generates an avatar based on the group name and using a colored background in combination with the first letter of the group name.

However, with or without an uploaded image, avatars fail to load on the Gitpod side.